Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco has reported third-quarter profits of $27.5 billion, down about 15% from last year as low oil prices ate into its revenues.

A strike by 33,000 Boeing factory workers is coming to an end after more than seven weeks.

Wall Street pointed toward gains early as investors awaited the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and other potentially market-rattling events this week.

Cheers and sobs of relief broke out in a federal courtroom in Kansas as dozens of people whose life savings had been embezzled by a bank CEO learned federal law enforcement had recovered their money.

Elon Musk’s X has been modified so that accounts you’ve blocked on the social media platform can still see your public posts.

China has moved forward with a complaint at the World Trade Organization that alleges the European Union has improperly set anti-subsidy tariffs on new Chinese-made electric vehicles.

U.S. auto safety regulators have ended an investigation into Ford engine failures after the company replaced engines or extended the warranty on some vehicles.

It’s one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too.

The United Arab Emirates has opened its annual oil-and-gas summit as it plans to increase energy output even as global prices have fallen.

U.S. stock indexes drifted lower ahead of a momentous week full of potential flashpoints in Washington, D.

The voting has closed for unionized factory workers at Boeing who were deciding whether to accept a contract offer or to extend their strike.

For some television viewers, size apparently does matter.

Conservationists and a Native American advocacy group are suing to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction, disrupt groundwater flows and threaten cultural resources.

No one knows how Tuesday’s presidential election will turn out, but the Federal Reserve’s move two days later is much easier to predict: With inflation continuing to cool, the Fed is set to cut interest rates for a second time this year.

Restaurant chain TGI Fridays says it has filed for bankruptcy protection as it looks for ways to “ensure the long-term viability” of the casual dining brand.

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have campaigned in the Rust Belt city of Erie, Pennsylvania.

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are zeroing in on Sunbelt states as they embark on one last weekend quest to sway undecided voters in battleground states that will determine the next president.

Nvidia is replacing Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, ending a 25-year-run for a pioneering semiconductor company that has fallen behind as Nvidia cornered the market for chips that run artificial intelligence systems.

Warren Buffett is now sitting on more than $325 billion cash after continuing to unload billions of dollars worth of Apple and Bank of America shares this year and continuing to collect a steady stream of profits from all of Berkshire Hathaway’s assorted businesses without finding any major acquisitions.

An airline passenger is sitting in jail in Virginia after being accused of an unprovoked attack on a fellow passenger who was sleeping.

In 2006, environmental nonprofits and some of the world’s largest soybean traders came together in a landmark “soy moratorium” to stop the sale of soy grown on illegally deforested land in Brazil's Amazon.

Georgia’s state government is diverting $100 million to spend on loans to farmers and cleanup after Hurricane Helene.

Online video production company MrBeast says it has fired somewhere between 5 to 10 employees following an investigation into the YouTube empire’s workplace culture.

Lyft is paying $2.1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the ride-hailing service of exaggerating how much money drivers could make while the company was trying to recover from a steep downturn in demand during the pandemic.

Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation.

The English village of Abbots Langley has become a flashpoint in a British battle over data centers.

Worries about this week’s tax-raising U.K. budget within financial markets appear to have eased with the interest rates charged on British debt steadying and the pound rising against most other currencies.

Kamala Harris’ campaign is actively warning business leaders that Donald Trump has a pattern of disregard for democracy and the rule of law that would threaten U.S. economic growth.

Wendy’s plans to close 140 U.S. restaurants before the end of this year on top of the 100 it said it would close in May.

The IRS has announced an increase to the amount individuals can contribute to their 401(k) plans in 2025, to $23,500, up from $23,000 in 2024.

Exxon Mobil’s third-quarter profit beat analysts’ expectations, as the oil and gas giant was helped by contributions from Pioneer Natural Resources, a recent acquisition.

Amazon led U.S. stock indexes higher, while a surprisingly weak jobs report marred by some unusual occurrences cemented bets on Wall Street for another cut to interest rates next week.

Up and down Florida’s Gulf Coast, residents are deciding whether to stay or go following two recent hurricanes.

Striking workers at Boeing will vote on a new contract offer next week.

America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls.

Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution.

Apple snapped out of a recent iPhone sales slump during its summertime quarter.

OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking news and other timely information.

Amazon reported a boost in its quarterly profits Thursday and exceeded revenue estimates.

Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for one year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research.

According to a Pentagon audit, Boeing has overcharged the Air Force on spare parts for a major cargo plane, including marking up the price of simple lavatory soap dispensers by 8,000%.

It’s no surprise that workers feel burned-out.

A former Disney worker has been arrested based on a complaint that says he hacked into servers at Walt Disney World in order to manipulate computer menus.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the fifth straight week, returning to its highest level since early August.

U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has conceded that wages may rise by less than previously thought as a direct result of her budget decision to increase a tax that businesses pay for their employees.

Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence.

The European Commission has fined Israeli generic drugmaker Teva more than 460 million euros ($500 million) for improperly seeking to protect the patent for its multiple sclerosis drug and for disparaging a rival company’s development of a competing medicine.

Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remained at historically healthy levels despite elevated interest rates.

As a presidential race profoundly shaped by Americans’ frustration with high prices nears its end, the government said Thursday that an inflation gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve has dropped to near pre-pandemic levels.

Samsung Electronics has reported progress on a major supply deal for artificial intelligence-focused chips, aiming to reassure investors following a slowdown in semiconductor profits during the last quarter.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says a semiconductor research facility in upstate New York will be getting $825 million in funding as one of three national technology centers.

Across the U.S., people's phones are pinging with text messages from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies.

Voters in the scenic mountain town of South Lake Tahoe in Northern California are considering a tax on vacation homes.

Drops for Big Tech companies including Microsoft and Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms led Wall Street lower.

A study by the Asian Development Bank shows that countries in Asia will suffer worse damage from the climate crisis than other regions and they are not spending enough to limit the damage and adapt to changing weather patterns and natural disasters.

X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform.

California is partnering with a major airline trade group to increase the availability of sustainable aviation fuels in the state.

Autonomous truck company Aurora Innovation says it won’t start hauling freight without humans on board until April of next year.

The Washington Post has lost at least a quarter million subscribers since announcing last Friday it would not endorse a candidate in the presidential race.

Federal officials are reporting more cases of E.

Meta Platforms Inc. has posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter results fueled by its advertising revenue growth and its push to incorporate artificial intelligence.

An ex-FTX executive who testified against the cryptocurrency firm's founder at his trial last year has been spared a prison sentence.

Delivery service DoorDash says it’s partnering with Lyft to bring ride-sharing benefits to its members.

Microsoft on Wednesday reported its quarterly sales grew 16% to $65.6 billion as the company sought to assure investors its huge spending on artificial intelligence is paying off.

A military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago is again on trial in a federal courtroom after a long-awaited civil case earlier this year ended with a hung jury.

The Grammys will have a new broadcast home on ABC starting in 2027.

A pivotal actor in the meme stock craze the began during the pandemic continues to hold a powerful sway over the movement of shares in major U.S. corporations.

PepsiCo says it plans to close four U.S. bottling plants and lay off nearly 400 workers as part of its efforts to streamline its operations.

The Associated Press has learned that two humpback whales were found dead and another seriously injured this year in huge nets used to collect krill for fishmeal and human dietary supplements near Antarctica.

Starbucks’ new Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol wants customers to get their orders hand-delivered by a barista in four minutes or less, a goal that will be central as he tries to reinvigorate the company’s sagging sales.

Saudi startup airline Riyadh Air has ordered 60 Airbus aircraft.

Reddit has turned a profit for the first time as a public company.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have bought another piece of Wrexham — its brewery.

Eli Lilly is dialing back its 2024 forecast after underwhelming Wall Street with third-quarter earnings and sales from two key drugs that missed expectations.

Shares of Chewy slid close to 2% in overnight trading after a regulatory filing revealed that the meme stock trader known as Roaring Kitty had sold his stake in the online pet store.

Shoppers looking to buy a luxury SUV can choose among many models from various brands.

British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves says taxes will rise by $52 billion to plug a hole in the public finances and provide new funding for the U.K.‘s cash-starved public services, as she announced a budget that could set the economic tone for years to come.

Volkswagen says significant cost cuts are urgently needed as it reports a steep decline in third-quarter earnings and faces employee representatives angry at the possibility of the automaker’s first plant closures in Germany.

Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on imports of new iPhone 14, 15 and 16 models by the U.S. tech giant Apple.

The European Union has finalized its sharply higher customs duties on electric vehicles imported from China.

U.S. stock indexes edged lower after drops for Eli Lilly and chip companies overshadowed a jump for Google’s parent company.

Malaysia's High Court has ordered imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak to enter a defense in his second corruption trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund.

Four days before Election Day, the government will issue its final snapshot of hiring and unemployment in the United States after a presidential race in which voter perceptions of the economy have played a central role.

The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 2.8% annual rate from July through September, with consumers helping drive growth despite the weight of still-high interest rates.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge has approved a sale of Tupperware Brands.

The owner and manager of the container ship Dali are seeking to minimize their responsibility for the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse.

A federal appeals court says the National Labor Relations Board was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options.

Google is still thriving while the company navigates through a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence and battles regulators trying to topple its internet empire.

The U.S. government has chosen winning bids to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial sale for floating offshore wind on the Atlantic coast.

Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X.

The federal government is handing out $2.4 billion in railroad grants to help pay for 122 projects nationwide with more than half of the money going to smaller railroads.

One of NBC News' longest-tenured correspondents, Andrea Mitchell, is switching gears.

Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t think Marvel executives would ever recreate his portrayal of Tony Stark using artificial intelligence.

A 15-year-old Colorado girl is hospitalized with severe complications of E.

A prime-time CNN discussion that went off the rails led to a conservative writer being thrown off the air and banned from the network.

The European Union says it will impose duties on imports of electric vehicles from China on Wednesday after talks between Brussels and Beijing failed to find an amicable solution to their trade dispute.

U.S. job openings tumbled last month to their lowest level since January 2021, a sign that the labor market is losing some momentum.

Google is changing the way its Google Local Services ads work, which could affect millions of small businesses.

American consumers are feeling quite a bit more confident this month as Election Day approaches, a business research group says.

A boost from COVID-19 treatment sales helped bush Pfizer to a better-than-expected third quarter and higher forecast for the year.